Why keep travelling? I spent some time thinking the other day about the travellers among us who take to the road and just keep on going. Off they go with their very few personal essentials rolled carefully into their trusted bag. Swapping material wealth for spiritual health, they keep going, never looking back. When […]

You dont have to speak the language to hear the desperation in the old man’s voice. We have boarded the subway train for the journey to Piraeus. A little old man shuffles up, then down the train, his arm outstretched proferring an empty plastic cup in hope that someone will place a few euros into it. He is […]

August 21, 2016 The sound of the tzitzikia is so loud, I comment to a friend as we sit beneath a lemon tree in Maroussi, Athens. I notice as I chat away that the stridulation is sporadic – one moment the cicadas are humming in full swing, the next stopping before the next chorus inevitably reaches a crescendo […]